Bamboo Ranch

04/02/2025

Hi everyone, BAMBOO RANCH in the TUCSON AREA is in need of 30 gallon plant pots (see below). They are often labeled " #30", are about 24" in diameter at the top and about 18" tall. Please respond to this post or contact Holly Finstrom if you have any available. Thanks! Phone 520 743 9879 please leave message.

03/12/2024

Ghostranchexotics.com

Owner Ken brought us some composted poo to trade and went home with some bamboo for his landscape!

Exotic Animal Encounters at Ghost Ranch Exotics Largest Capybara Experience in the USA

03/12/2024

As a first for Bamboo Ranch we were visited by this adorable baby porcupine from Ghost Ranch Exotics of Marana, Az.

06/11/2024

1) Think globally, act locally.
2) When the going gets tough, the tough get going.
3) Our parents survived WWII, the Great Depression.
4) Love still abounds. The Sun still brings us light and warmth and we must now more than ever bring that light and warmth to Mother Earth and each other.

We still have our friends and families. As they say on NPR: Take care of yourself, and if you can, someone else too.

11/09/2024

18 states have signed the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact! Look it up! Their legislatures have agreed to award all that state's Electoral College votes to the winner of the national popular vote.

11/06/2024

Bamboo Care in the Southwest in June

If your bamboo begins to look stressed in the heat, first check if it is adequately watered. If it has plenty of water, DO NOT give it more! It can only use as much as it can transpire. Bamboo is a grass and needs a wet-dry cycle; constantly wet soil is bad! (There are
a few uncommon species which are exceptions to this rule, for instance River Cane)

Instead, continue watering as needed but also shade the plant temporarily with whatever is handy - if too big to shade easily, shade the surrounding soil (lawn furniture works well for this.).

Now, everyone wash their cat* and wait hopefully for monsoon.

(* stolen from funny exchange about making it rain on TBG page long ago)

27/03/2024

17/03/2024

WANT TO BUY NURSERY POTS!

Bamboo Ranch will buy your used LARGE (15 GALLON - 18" tall, 16" diameter) nursery pots (see photo).

Can use a few or a truckload, will pay generously for pots in usable condition.

Email [email protected] or phone 520 743 9879. Thanks!

02/03/2024

28/01/2024

Phyllostachys aurea (and many other bamboo species) make good cross country snowshoeing poles!
January 27, 2024.
Holly Finstrom of Bamboo Ranch on the Sunset trail, Catalina Mountains.